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In recent generations of the digital world medical data in Recommender Systems. Health Care Recommender System (HCRS) analyses the medical data and then predicts the user's or patient's illness. Nowadays, healthcare data is used by various users or patients in recommendation systems which are useful for everyone. Analysing and predicting medical data provides awareness to users and these data predictions may be enriched using various techniques of RS. Machine learning techniques are used to make sure that health data is reliable and of high quality. In every RS the issues are targeted such as scalability, sparsity and cold start problems. In many social networking applications, these issues are resolved using ML algorithms. However, there is a significant gap between IT systems and medical diagnosis. The fuzzy genetic method is used in HCRS in order to bridge the gap between IT and healthcare applications. Through the use of the mutation and crossover operators, a real-value genetic method is used in this to compute similarity. With the user's extra personalized information, fuzzy rules are later generated for the database. The Hybrid fuzzy-genetic method, also known as this situation, combines both techniques to improve recommendation quality. Utilizing this method will improve the quality of the recommendation process by discovering the most precise similarity measures among different users. Six factors are subjected to fuzzification, including age, gender, employment, height, weight, and region. Genre-interesting measure weights are then used, including Very Light, Light, Average, Heavy, and Very Heavy. Finally, the evaluation metrics used MAE and RMSE to evaluate the recommendation accuracy which showed the best results in comparison with baseline approaches such as Convolutional Neural Networks and Restricted Boltzman Machine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Online shopping is a form of electronic commerce that enables customers to purchase products directly from the seller over the internet using a web browser or a mobile application. With the growing number of research papers on Deep Learning (DL)-based recommendations, DL models have proven to be effective in Recommender systems. Hence in this paper, relevant product accessories recommendation is proposed using deep learning and histogram features. The proposed recommendation describes the novel way of content-based filtering which divides the work into two phases. In phase 1, the implemented approach determines the color and category of the product. In phase 2, the recommendation system retrieves the matching accessories for the chosen product. For phase 1, Decision Tree, Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, Naïve Bayes, Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), and a novel method of Stack dense Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) along with the color histogram is applied to identify the category and color of the product. It is justified that the proposed technique of stack dense RNN achieves 98% accuracy. In phase 2, from the Machine Learning (ML) perspective, Random Forest (RF) is employed for the recommendation. The RF model finds the matching accessories for the chosen product and retrieves the top relevant items. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recommender systems based on sentiment analysis become challenging due to the presence of enormous data available over the internet. With the lack of proper data cleaning and analysis methods, existing machine learning (ML) techniques fail to generate accurate recommendations. To overcome this issue, this paper proposes a Light Deep Learning (LightDL)-based recommender system that uses Twitter-based reviews. First, the data is collected from Twitter and cleaned by subsequent data cleaning processes. Then, this pre-processed data is fed into the LightDL model, which learns the important features like hashtags, unigrams, multigrams, etc. from each piece of data. Here, we have learned about four groups of features, including semantic features, syntactic features, symbolic features, and tweet-based features. Finally, the data is classified into positive, negative, and neutral categories according to the learned features. On the basis of classified sentiment, the review is generated to the users. Finally, the model is evaluated in terms of accuracy, precision, recall, f-measure, and error rate through extensive experiments in Matlab. The proposed LightDL model outperforms in all performance measures; specifically, it achieves 95% accuracy for the Twitter dataset. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nowadays, the model compression method of knowledge distillation has drawn great attentions in Recommender systems (RS). The strategy of bidirectional distillation performs the bidirectional learning for both the teacher and the student models such that these two models can collaboratively improve with each other. However, this strategy cannot effectively exploit representation capabilities of each item and lack of the interpretability for the importance of items. Thus, how to develop an effective sampling scheme is still valuable for us to further study and explore. In this paper, we propose an improved rank discrepancy-aware item sampling strategy to enhance the performance of bidirectional distillation learning. Specifically, by employing the distillation loss, we train the teacher and student models to reflect the fact that a user has partiality for the unobserved items. Then, we propose the improved rank discrepancy-aware sampling strategy based on feedback learning mechanism to transfer just the useful information which can effectively enhance each other. The key part of the multiple distillation training aims to select valuable items which can be re-distilled in the network for training. The proposed technique can effectively solve the problem of high ambiguity in nature for recommender system. Experimental results on several real-world recommender system datasets well demonstrate that the improved bidirectional distillation strategy shows better performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Knowledge graphs have been introduced into recommender systems due to the rich connectivity information. Many knowledge-aware recommendation methods use graph neural networks (GNNs) to capture the high-order structural and semantic information of knowledge graphs. However, previous GNN-based methods have the following limitations: (1) they fail to make full use of the neighborhood information of entities and (2) they ignore the importance of user interaction sequences on reflecting user preferences. As such, these models are insufficient for generating accurate representations of users and items. In this study, we propose a Knowledge-aware Hierarchical Attention Network (KHAN) to provide better recommendation. Specifically, the proposed model mainly consists of an item encoder and a user encoder. The item encoder is equipped with a hierarchical attention network, which is used to generate entity (item) representations by carefully aggregating neighborhood information of entities. The user encoder is also designed to learn more informative user representations from user interaction sequences using multi-head self-attention. The learned user representations are then combined with user representations introduced in the item encoder through a gating mechanism to generate the final user representations. Extensive experiments on two real-world datasets about movie and restaurant recommendation demonstrate the effectiveness of our model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recommender System (RS) is an information filtering approach that helps the overburdened user with information in his decision making process and suggests items which might be interesting to him. While presenting recommendation to the user, accuracy of the presented list is always a concern for the researchers. However, in recent years, the focus has now shifted to include the unexpectedness and novel items in the list along with accuracy of the recommended items. To increase the user acceptance, it is important to provide potentially interesting items which are not so obvious and different from the items that the end user has rated. In this work, we have proposed a model that generates serendipitous item recommendation and also takes care of accuracy as well as the sparsity issues. Literature suggests that there are various components that help to achieve the objective of serendipitous recommendations. In this paper, fuzzy inference based approach is used for the serendipity computation because the definitions of the components overlap. Moreover, to improve the accuracy and sparsity issues in the recommendation process, cross domain and trust based approaches are incorporated. A prototype of the system is developed for the tourism domain and the performance is measured using mean absolute error (MAE), root mean square error (RMSE), unexpectedness, precision, recall and F-measure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

User rating information on multiple predefined aspects gathered by hotel recommendation systems generally shows a deviation between the overall rating and detailed criteria ratings. In this study, to address this deviation, we proposed a novel hotel recommendation method that clusters users with different preferences into different groups using the K-means algorithm. Moreover, we allocated weights to different criteria and obtained a comprehensive score. A case study on actual data from Tripadvisor.com showed that compared with three other models, our proposed model demonstrated a more impressive performance. This research can offer advantages to hotel service providers and customers in terms of decision making. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recommender systems can recommend products by analyzing the interests and habits of users. To make more efficient recommendation, the contextual information should be collected in recommendation algorithms. In the restaurant recommendation, the location and the current time of customers should also be considered to facilitate restaurants to find potential customers and give accurate and timely recommendations. However, the existing recommendation approaches often lack the consideration of the influence of time and location. Besides, the data sparsity is an inherent problem in the collaborative filtering algorithm. To address these problems, this paper proposes a recommendation approach which combines the contextual information including time, price and location. Instead of constructing the user-restaurant scoring matrix, the proposed approach clusters price tags and generates the user-price scoring matrix to alleviate the sparsity of data. The experiment on Foursquare dataset shows that the proposed approach has a better performance than traditional ones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Group recommender system provides suggestions for a group of users by exploring the choices of individual users of the group. Popularity of group recommender systems is increasing because many activities such as listening to music, watching movies, traveling, etc. are normally performed in groups rather individually. Group recommender systems like personal recommender systems also suffer from cold start and sparsity issues. The cold start and sparsity issues result into inaccurate recommendation computation which degrades the recommendation quality. To handle the cold start and sparsity issues in a Group Recommender System (GRS), this paper proposes to use cross domain approach and introduces Cross Domain Group Recommender System (CDGRS). The recommendations provided by trustworthy and reputed users in the group enhance the acceptance towards the presented recommendations as compared to the other individuals in the group. We have combined the social factors e.g. trust and reputation to get influential user in the group recommendation. A prototype of the system is developed for tourism domain that incorporates four sub-domains i.e. restaurants, hotels, tourist places and shopping places. The performance of CDGRS is compared with GRS. Spearman's Correlation Coefficient, MAE, RMSE, Precision, Recall and F-measure are used to find the accuracy of the generated recommendations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recommender Systems (RS) are expected to suggest the accurate goods to the consumers. Cold start is the most important challenge for RSs. Recent hybrid RSs combine ConF and ColF. We introduce an ontological hybrid RS where the ontology has been employed in its ConF part while improving the ontology structure by its ColF part. In this paper, a new hybrid approach is proposed based on the combination of demographic similarity and cosine similarity between users in order to solve the cold start problem of new user type. Also, a new approach is proposed based on the combination of ontological similarity and cosine similarity between items in order to solve the cold start problem of new item type. The main idea of the proposed method is to expand user/item profiles based on different strategies to build higher-performing profiles for users/items. The proposed method has been evaluated on a real dataset and the experimentations indicate the proposed method has the better performance comparing with the state of the art RS methods, especially in the case of the cold start. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the popularity of networks and the increasing number of online users, recommender systems have suffered from the privacy leakage of sensitive information. While people enjoy recommender services, their information is exposed to the networks. To protect the privacy of users when using the recommender services, we propose a multi-level combined privacy-preserving model that maintains high accuracy of recommendation with privacy protection and alleviates the data sparsity problem. Our scheme contains two steps of recommendation. First, a multi-level combined random perturbation (MCRP) model is proposed on the client side. Our model dynamically divides multiple disturbance levels and adds noise of different ranges to the rating matrix according to Gaussian and uniform mixed disturbances. Second, on the server side, we propose a pseudo rating prediction filling (PRPF) algorithm based on the matrix factorization model. Combining the PRPF algorithm with the MCRP method significantly improves the recommender accuracy and effectively increases privacy security. Sensitive analysis and comparison experiments show that the proposed privacy method has certain advantages in security and recommender accuracy by using three publicly available datasets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Collaborative filtering (CF) has achieved great performance in recommender system over past decades. CF-based methods firstly map users and items to latent factors which share the same latent space, and then use a linear function to predict user ratings on items, such as inner product or cosine distance. It only uses original latent feature, however feature interactions are usually helpful in enhancing recommendation performance. To tackle such issue, we used Factorization Machines (FM) to enhanced linear methods by incorporating the second-order feature interactions. In this paper, we propose a novel hybrid model, AutoFM, which combine Denoising Autoencoder (DAE) and FM together. AutoFM follows collaborative filtering method, it firstly uses DAE to map users and items to latent factor, then it uses FM calculating user ratings on items. To tackle the cold start problem, we also take as the input of FM user's and item's side information besides of latent factor. We conduct AutoFM on three real-world datasets, and the experiment results show that AutoFM consistently outperforms the state-of-the-art method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Increase in chronic diseases among people gives the health care industry a challenging problem. Healthcare industry is using the Internet-of-Things (IoT) to create systems that monitor patients. The ultimate task of the system is to minimize manual efforts made to recommend food and drugs for chronic patients. However, many uncertain factors are involved with chronic patients, and existing models unable to handle it efficiently often lead to poor results. Medical records gathered from diverse devices, such as mobile and IoT devices that are raw in nature or in different formats cannot be utilized for further analysis. Since patient records grow rapidly, it is difficult for health care systems to manage and control. To overcome these limitations, the proposed system develops a fuzzy ontology-based recommender system using Type-2 fuzzy logic to recommend foods and drugs for chronic (diabetic) patient. Extraction of risk factors for chronic patients is achieved via wearable sensors and IoT-based electronic medical records are linked with linked open data (LOD) to create a knowledge base. Since, patient data sets are huge; cloud services are used to store and retrieve data for further analysis. An experiment is conducted on patient datasets and the results illustrate that the proposed work is efficient for patient data enrichment, risk factor extraction and appropriate medical advice for chronic patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To address the problem that the existing time-aware methods always recommend out-of-fashion items to users, this paper proposes a novel method named Item Life Cycle based Collaborative Filtering (ItemLC-CF), taking both user's preference and item's popularity into consideration. This method presents a life cycle function to simulate the variation of item's popularity and integrates such variation with CF to learn the relative preference for items by reranking the candidate set of CF according to item's vitality. Given that it is extremely complicated to construct a life cycle function for each item, items are clustered into different categories via their popularities instead of original product categories. Meanwhile, a SVM ensemble classifier based on AdaBoost is employed to find an appropriate category for new arrival items. Evaluation on MovieLens-1M dataset demonstrates that the proposed method can improve the performance of recommendation list, in turn providing more reasonable and popular recommendation lists for users. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recommender systems (RS) suffer from cold start and data sparsity problem. Researchers have proposed various solutions to this problem in which cross domain recommendation is an effective approach. Cross domain recommender system (CDRS) utilizes user data from multiple domains to generate prediction for the target user. This paper proposes a proactive cross domain recommender system. This paper also introduces a parallel approach in cross domain recommendation using general purpose graphic processing unit (GPGPU). This will help to accelerate the computation in the multi-agent environment as data processing in multiple domains takes significant amount of time. A prototype of the system is developed in tourism domain using Cuda, JCuda, Java, Android studio and Jade. The system uses four domains which is restaurant, tourist places, shopping places and hotels. The performance of the parallel CDRS system is compared with non-parallel CDRS in terms of their processing speed. Also the system is compared to the normal Collaborative Filtering approach to measure accuracy of the proposed system using MAE as well as precision, recall and F-measure. The results show a significant speedup for the presented system over non-parallel system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]